So why not take president Obama at his words, and simply impute the motives that he claims?

所以为何不相信奥巴马的言论，相信事实就如他所说的一样呢？

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Okay. Now this gentleman out here is actually doing it different from what I am doing and what most of you are doing but you know what? He's doing it correctly.

这位先生,和我做的不太一样,甚至和在座各位做的不太一样,但你知道吗,他做的是对的

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But for Hobbes, think of this by contrast, art does not so much imitate nature, rather art can create a new kind of nature, an artificial nature, an artificial person, as it were.

但是霍布斯不一样，他认为艺术并不是自然的模仿物，不如说艺术可以创造一种新式的自然，人造的自然，就像人的创造。

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